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You probably don’t need anyone to tell you that virtualization

has added a whole new set of storage performance and capacity

management challenges to what was already a tough job! But,

our storage management software can make your job a lot

easier—and at a very affordable price point that won’t attract

unwanted attention from your CFO.

SolarWinds Storage Manager helps you keep a sharp eye on the

performance and capacity of your physical and virtual storage

infrastructure—end to end, from VM to spindle! With Storage

Manager at your side, you can quickly and easily monitor storage performance, isolate hotspots, automate

storage capacity planning, map VMs to physical storage, analyze storage usage to reclaim storage space,

manage fibre channel switches, gain visibility into your multi-vendor SAN fabric and more—all through a single

pane of glass!

Storage Manager Highlights:Storage Performance Monitoring & Hot Spot Isolation

• Simplifies troubleshooting of shared storage and server performance bottlenecks• Isolates storage I/O hot spots and the source of contention

Automated Storage Capacity Planning• Automates the collection of forecasting data• Makes it easy to view storage growth rates and project when storage capacity will be reached and

forecast costs

VM to Physical Storage Mapping• Automatically maps VMs, applications and logical connections to the physical storage

environment, enabling root-cause analysis

Storage File Analysis and Data Classification• Provides insight into the types of files being stored, their age and access history, so you can reclaim

wasted space and stay compliant

Storage LUN Views• Understand how your virtual infrastructure is mapped to your LUNs• Identify which VMs are using the most storage I/O and the most storage capacity• Determine if your LUN is being affected by other LUNs on the same RAID group or pool

Multi-Vendor SAN & Fibre Channel Switch Management• Single pane of glass across your multi-vendor SAN with support for arrays from all of the major

storage vendors• Delivers visibility into fibre channel switches and your SAN fabric

In-Depth Analytics & Storage Reporting• Aggregates data from multiple arrays and vendors into consolidated dashboards and reports• Shows capacity, allocation, usage and forecasting at all levels of the storage environment

(raw, RAID, LUN, data store and file system)

Heterogeneous Storage Management for Your Physical AND Virtual Infrastructure

supported storage devices include:

EMC® LSI™

NetApp® ONStor™

IBM® Pillar®

Dell® Sun®

Dell EqualLogic™

Dell Compellent

XIotech™ SGI™

HP® HP 3PAR

Supports the most common arrays

from all of the major storage vendors

And more!

SolarWinds Storage Manager FeaturesStorage I/O Hotspot Detection Storage Manager looks across your multi-vendor SAN, identifies potential issues, and enables you to

quickly drill down to detailed information about the physical or virtual resource causing the problem. By

mapping your virtual and physical infrastructure to physical storage, Storage Manager makes it easy to

isolate storage I/O hotspots before they impact performance. Even better, Storage Manager shows you how

a potential bottleneck can impact the physical and virtualized elements in your infrastructure and identifies

available capacity you can leverage for a quick fix.

Storage Manager can even help you manage the “VM I/O Blender” effect that can occur as VMs multiply.

As traditional, predictable I/O patterns get tossed and new streams blend together to create new I/O

dynamics and transient hotspots, the storage I/O hotspot detection capabilities in Storage Manager can

help you pinpoint bandwidth issues, quickly resolve them, and prevent them from happening again.

VM to Physical Storage Mapping The VM to physical storage mapping feature in SolarWinds Storage Manager automatically maps VMs and

logical connections to the physical storage environment in order to provide you with a complete view across

all resources in your virtualized infrastructure. Storage Manager is the only intuitive, web-based storage

management solution that combines VM to physical storage mapping with storage monitoring, reporting,

alerting and forecasting across the entire multi-vendor storage stack for DAS, NAS and SAN systems.

Automated Storage Capacity Planning Storage Manager collects storage forecasting data and tracks performance over time to identify hot spots,

peak hours and potential outages. By automating the collection of forecasting data, Storage Manager

makes it easy to view growth rates, project when capacity will be reached, and forecast costs and budgetary

requirements. In addition, this same data provides the information you need to avoid outages due to full

disk errors. Storage Manager even supports your tiered storage strategy by classifying data according to

frequency of access, making it easy to determine which data should be stored on a top-tier storage device

and which data can be moved to tape.

Multi-Vendor Storage Performance MonitoringStorage Manager ensures that your storage network is always running at peak performance by providing

comprehensive storage performance monitoring and alerting across SAN, NAS, and DAS arrays from every

major storage vendor. Using agentless performance monitoring technology, Storage Manager enables you

to identify how storage resources are currently being used and how they will be used in the future—without

impacting network and device performance.

SolarWinds Storage Manager delivers monitoring data on volumes, RAID groups/storage pools, disks,

initiators, target ports, operational status for the array, processors and all the associations between each

entity. With its powerful storage performance monitoring capabilities, Storage Manager helps you manage

space consumption on RAID groups, map storage volumes back to the host and understand how these

volumes are load balanced across each storage processor on the array. This gives you valuable insight into

storage utilization across the enterprise, so you can identify the impact of a failure and trend and forecast for

capacity planning and business continuity decisions. You can also quickly and easily configure a full range

of custom and pre-defined alerts. From a single interface, you can easily set thresholds, alerts, filters and

notifications. These alerts help you recognize and correct issues before your users experience performance

degradation or availability issues.

Managing Virtualized Storage Storage Manager allows you to more effectively manage VMware Thin Provisioning. Thin provisioning

enables administrators to allocate storage to multiple VMs very easily on a just-enough and just-in-time

basis and relies on efficient use of over-provisioning. Storage Manager helps you view, analyze and plan thin

provisioning deployments by collecting and reporting on detailed information on virtual disks for managing

the level of over-commitment on your datastores.

Automated Storage Discovery Using SMI-S Provider information and APIs, Storage

Manager’s discovery engine will quickly scan for EMC®,

LSI™, NetApp® filers, VMware vCenter™ and standalone ESX

arrays. When new arrays or hosts are discovered, Storage

Manager displays the hostnames and IP addresses, so you

can easily assign them to the management server to be

configured. The storage discovery feature saves you valuable

time and makes deploying Storage Manager faster and easier

than ever before.

Cross-Vendor Storage Reporting Storage Manager’s reporting console houses hundreds of pre-defined and fully-customizable reports that

provide in-depth information on every aspect of your multi-vendor storage environment, including domains,

servers, volumes, files and owners. A custom grouping feature even allows you to group storage, servers and

file systems into unique business-related entities for charge back, division reporting or geographic analysis.

All reports can be automated, emailed and published on a schedule and exported as HTML or CSV files for

further customization.

Storage Data Classification Enjoy complete file and data classification (with

drill-down capability), including automated usage

trend reporting, storage capacity planning and real-

time storage monitoring. These data classification

capabilities can help you understand what kinds of files

are being stored, their age and access history, so you

can reclaim wasted space and stay compliant. Storage

Manager makes it easy to build rules to identify specific

files across the enterprise, obtain detailed information

(host, path, owner, size, age), and take further action

by sending this information to other applications via

Storage Manager’s self-contained reporting engine.

Storage LUN View Storage LUN views provide a single pane of glass for a LUN and all related infrastructure, both physical

and virtual, allowing you to diagnose performance issues. You can quickly determine if storage is truly the

reason for poor performance of a VM. If you determine that the culprit is another VM or LUN, you can drill

down and continue to diagnose the issue within the tool.

The new storage LUN views are the perfect integration point between SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

and Storage Manager. Virtualization Manager is linked to the LUN view from the Cluster, ESX, VM or

datastore view, enabling you to see the storage under your VM infrastructure, putting you just a click away

from total visibility.

model manages:STM25 Up to 25 Disks

STM50 Up to 50 Disks

STM150 Up to 150 Disks

STM300 Up to 300 Disks

STM500 Up to 500 Disks

STM1000 Up to 1,000 Disks

STM1500 Up to 1,500 Disks

STM3000 Up to 3,000 Disks

STM5000 Up to 5,000 Disks

STM7500 Up to 7,500 Disks

STM10000 Up to 10,000 Disks

STM12500 Up to 12,500 Disks

STM15000 Up to 15,000 Disks

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Multi-Vendor SAN & Fibre Channel Switch Management SolarWinds Storage Manager provides comprehensive storage monitoring, reporting, and alerting to ensure

that your storage systems are always running at peak performance across EMC, NetApp, Dell, HP, IBM,

Hitachi, and more. Storage Manager also supports a broad range of Fibre Channel Switches including

Brocade, Cisco MDS, McData and Qlogic.

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worldwide from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. In all of our market areas, our approach is

consistent. We focus exclusively on IT Pros and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been

forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. SolarWinds delivers on this commitment

with unexpected simplicity through products that are easy to find, buy, use and maintain while providing

the power to address any IT management problem on any scale. Our solutions are rooted in our deep

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system requirements

hardware minimum requirementsProcessors 2

Memory 4-8 GB

Hard Drive 50 GB

software minimum requirementsOperating Systems Windows® 2003/2008 (32- or 64-bit); Linux® RedHat®/SUSE 64 bit

Console Internet Explorer®, Mozilla® Firefox®

NOTE: The requirements listed above are recommendations that vary depending on each network configuration and server load.